[Informatics] vceit.com lumbers towards 2016

Wed Dec 9 19:05:40 AEDT 2015

Dear Mark

You are a scream! Did your students realize how crazy you were or did you put on a veneer of sanity for their sake ☺

Did you mean Kloud Komputing that would be a KK

PS: Thanks heaps for all the resources. My students got used to seeing  “by Mark Kelly” at the end of Power Points.

regards

Robert K Hallworth
Director of Learning Technology
Mobile:0431 892 398
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From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Wednesday, 9 December 2015 6:40 PM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List <informatics at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Informatics] vceit.com lumbers towards 2016

Thanks
 for the support
, Gordon.

I must admit it was a close call. I was very close to pulling the plug on vceit.com<http://vceit.com>, but after

two whole
consecutive and 
uninterrupted days of leisure I was crawling up the wall with boredom and frustration.

And, coincidentally, the re-registration of the vceit.com<http://vceit.com> domain came due, so I had to decide whether to it renew or not. In a moment of

indecision, inertia, and habit, I renewed it. Then I felt re-committed.*

I seem to retain the gene shared by most active teachers: I complain all the time, but I can't be fulfilled without deadlines, stress, change, and persistent demands.

At least now I don't have
to suffer 
meetings, parent/teacher interviews, information nights, budgets, and bells ringing every 45 minutes or so
;
but the local primary school's bell from 1km away still sends an atavistic shiver
of dread 
down my spine.  Erghhh.**

At this point
I'm reading "Infinite Jest"***** by David Foster Wallace, and have come to
realise that any email that
has long and recursive
footnotes
******

must
end now
.

Mark

[Time-poor readers may choose to stop reading at this point. Apologies in advance for those who read on]

FOOTNOTES

* "Hypothesis:

I
ndecision, inertia, and habit
are the reasons 
why many marriages limp along well past their use-by date." Discuss in a multimodal online solution, using primary and secondary data. Identify dependent and independent variables. Include a full bibliography using Harvard, APA, Chicago, or IEEE styles.

**I think I've mentioned previously on this forum that since I retired, my regular nocturnal nightmare is finding myself at school not knowing where my class is or what I'm supposed to be teaching them.
In the most recent version of the dream, however, as I aimlessly wandered the corridors looking for my classroom I shrugged and decided that if I
actually 
found the class I'd just give them dictation
 incorporating tricky words like "alcohol", "cemetery", "accommodation", "quarter", "minuscule" *** and "it's/its" and "there/their/there" decisions
. That was from my days of teaching English, about 20 years ago
, when I actually decided things like that
. I think it means I'm nearly cured of teaching.

*** Yes, it's**** 'minuscule', not 'miniscule'. It took me years to discover this.

**** "It's" is always an abbreviation of "it is" or "it has".
"

Its"
(without apostrophe) 
means "belonging to it". I used to get this wrong all the time.

*****
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B><https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B>
 (1996). A long but jolly interesting read. Also see the related film******.

******
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416744
 - 'The End of the Tour' (2015)

******* I'd use in-text superscript referencing but I can't work out how to do superscripts in gMail. That is one argument against cloud applications compared to more comprehensive, locally-installed software suites*******.

******* VCE Informatics U4O2 KK12: "the advantages and disadvantages of using networks and cloud computing******** for storing and disposing of data and information."

******** Hey. I've just noticed the KK refers to "cloud computing" but only references "storing and disposing" of data/info (like Dropbox). It does not mention cloud computing/manipulation in the sense of online apps like Google Drive spreadsheet/word processor, online image editors, online Gantt chart creators etc. Are true online apps irrelevant to "cloud computing"? This is a bit of a worry.

On 9 December 2015 at 16:26, Cameron, Gordon G <Cameron.Gordon.G at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:Cameron.Gordon.G at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:

Thanks Mark. I suspect many teachers will be thankful you haven't abandoned them. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I claim that yours is probably the most used IT resource that ever existed.

Gordon Cameron | College Pathways Leader

Sunshine College | Graham St Sunshine Vic 3020 | PO Box 165

8311 5234 | cameron.gordon.g at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:cameron.gordon.g at edumail.vic.gov.au>

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From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au> [informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au>] on behalf of Mark [mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, 9 December 2015 4:05 PM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Informatics] vceit.com<http://vceit.com> lumbers towards 2016
Hi, Thrillseekers.

I don't know how many of you are still afflicted with introductory Informatics classes
, but 
I've
recently 
been
busy
populat
ing
the
 new (CMS-based) vceit.com<http://vceit.com>
Informatics theory page<http://vceit.com/wp/informatics/>
,

by 
recycling
/
adapting existing slideshows and creating
new 
slideshows
for new KK 
to
give you a
starting point
 for 2016
.

Be aware that some of the recycled slideshows may not yet be 100% conformist to the new study design. I've been using the efficient NEIGE* model in re-using existing key knowledge resources.

The new slideshows may need polishing and filling out, and I have to add just enough whimsical material to annoy those people who like to complain about their free resources.

Mark

*The NEIGE model.
It's either French for 'snow', implying a crisp, clean and pure approach to problem solving,
or it stands for "Near Enough Is Good Enough'. You can decide.

--

Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>
http://vceit.com

--

Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>
http://vceit.com

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